The Hamlet by William Faulkner is his first installment of the Snopes trilogy.

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Barbara and david Mikkelson. Founder of Snopes.com.
Cover is of The Hamlet whose main family’s surname is snopes.

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Barbara and David Mikkelson manage the site Snopes.com which discusses email forwards, urban legends etc.
William Faulkner wrote the Snopes trilogy.

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From Wikipedia:
David Mikkelson used the username “snopes” (the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner) in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban. Barbara Hamel was also a prolific poster. The Mikkelsons created the Snopes site in 1995.

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Creators of snopes.com, the myth busting website
William Faulkner wrote a series of novels named Snopes trilogy

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Snopes.com.

Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a California couple who met on the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup…
…David Mikkelson used the username “snopes” (the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner) in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.
Barbara (nee) Hamel was also a prolific poster. The Mikkelsons created the Snopes site in 1995, and later worked on the site full time.

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Barbara and David Mikkelson, the people behind Snopes.com. The site is named for a recurring family name in the works of William Faulkner.

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Barbara & David Mikkelson of Snopes.com. The name was taken from the name of a family from Faulkner’s novels.

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snopes.com started by David and Barbara Mikkelson.
William Faulkner -> snopes trilogy.

William faulkner’s three novels, The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion are known collectively as the Snopes Trilogy,

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Myth debunkers David and Barbara Mikkelson. Snopes.com
A famous website.

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The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy.It tells of the advent and the rise of the “Snopes” family in Frenchman’s Bend .

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The Mikkelsons may be Internet pioneers, but David and Barbara use plenty of old-fashioned tools in their work — like books. Lots of them. Books on word etymologies, history and urban legends, stacked two-deep in the couple’s library .

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Barbara and David Mikkelson of the snopes.com

The roundabout clue is about William Faulkner’s The Snopes Trilogy …. the name of a family of nosy and often unpleasant people

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David and Barbara Mikkelson – the husband-and-wife duo behind the myth-busting Web site “Snopes.com”

The clue : “Snopes” has been adapted from “the name of a family of often unpleasent people in the works of William faulkner”, esp. in the triology “The Hamlet” (pic1-coverpage), “The Town”, “The Mansion”.

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David and Barbara Mikkelson , creators of Snopes.com, which discusses urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of uncertain or questionable origin.
Clue:- ‘snopes’ is inspired from the works of William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy

David Mikkelson (the founder) used the username “snopes” (the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner)in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban

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Snopes.com,officially the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a web site discussing urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of uncertain or questionable originrun by Barbara and David Mikkelson,a California couple who met on the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup.

The Hamlet is the first of the “Snopes” trilogy,by the American author William Faulkner.